Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary

Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, part of Minneapolis Public School District, with 304 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary is one of 86 schools operated by Minneapolis Public School District, a district that educates 29,928 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 9% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.1%, the actual is 8.9%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is Unity Campus, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary has fell 33%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 56% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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